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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Carausius, post: 2977903, member: 76440&quot;][USER=75937]@Roman Collector[/USER] , in your excerpt, RIC 1650 is an AE As, but you describe your coin as an Oricalchum Dupondius.&nbsp; I find no Dupondii listed for Faustina Jr. in RIC, though brass dupondius/copper as is listed interchangeably in Sear&#039;s RCV II. Sear gives your type a slightly higher value than other types, though not high enough to suggest tremendous rarity.&nbsp; This begs two questions:</p><p><br /></p><p>1. Are you certain you&#039;ve got a Dupondius?&nbsp; It might just be a heavy As.&nbsp; Color is generally a good guide.</p><p><br /></p><p>2. At you looking for the right denomination(s) in your search?&nbsp; The As may be common and the Dupondius quite rare, or perhaps Dupondii are being misattributed as Asses (since RIC doesn&#039;t list Dupondii). Perhaps expand your search to include Asses, which might pick-up misattributed Dupondii.</p><p><br /></p><p>EDIT: I just ran a few searches myself and also find only Sestertii.&nbsp; This could be a case of over-population of a rare type in museum collections (not the first time RIC miscalculated based on museum collections&#039; penchant for rare, attractive types) or just a plain error. Another possibility is that the type appeared in several pre-internet sales, and have not been recently resold.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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